does this trip by joe biden, the vice president, mean that this deal is going to happen? >> i don't know if the deal's going to happen, ed. i know there's a lot of opposition to it in the congress. there's a lot of opposition in other countries. let me make this point. since the passage of nafta, there has not been a trade deal that's been negotiated that has turned out to be net job benefits for america. and what we've done is have a series of accumulated trade deficits. and i put this question to congress. i put this question to the administration. i would put this question to vice president biden. if having a huge trade deficit is good economic policy, why doesn't germany want one? why doesn't france want one? why doesn't china want one? why doesn't japan want one? none of them want a trade deficit. the country with the largest trade deficit on the planet is america. and this is going to ask american workers to compete with workers in brunei, with workers in vietnam. that just can't happen. and i think this is going to be a bad deal. and there are issues in that deal.